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Mix-Ansicht- Warum ich nicht nach California gehe: - Emerald, 09.06.2003, 08:50
Warum ich nicht nach California gehe:
-->Wenn die Statistiken es schon messen, muss der Echtzeit-Zustand noch
um einiges schlimmer sein:
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To continue the city-crap-pollution beats mining theme, we have the new nitrate polluting statistics for the city of Los Angeles. LA has 11 million souls who, bless their fleshy gluts, leave behind 3 pounds a day each of fecalural material rich in aromatic nitrate wastes. This stuff, commonly called night-soil by Victorians, crap by city bred expletists, manure by farmers, schizer by German folk, and theethies by babes, is also well known and recognized by many as just plain shit. Rich effulgent effervescent, deep brown, hearty pooh. 33 million pounds of the stuff daily. Never let it be said that Hollywood and the west coast aren't full of it. They have it by the railroad train load. 16 thousand five hundred tons of it a day, not counting what Rover and Meow-Meow and 80,000,000 pigeons anoint the acreage of the Big Smokey each and every solar diem.
Now this ground down and well digested material is a whopping 5% nitrate compound as it assexits. That aroma is ammonia, a rich and useful nitrate to Farmer Brown. It is a problem for the water ingestor in the environs as we are aware in pollution circles.
New we have 33 million pounds of schistose materiel. Times.05 for nitrate composition. That is 1,650,000 pounds of nitrates a day. In the flush water that doggie drinks. Diluted by 20 pounds of water, it is added to the additional 50 pounds of water each person may use on lawn and bath each day, assuming. 1650 K lbs nitrate is dissolved in 70 X 11 million pounds of water. Double that dilution water from storm drain run off. We have 1,650,000 over 1,540,000,000 pounds of nitrates, to equal.000107 or 107 parts per million nitrate in waste water from that city.
The allowable in drinking water is 10 parts per million by Federal edict, which is in order to avoid a rare hemoglobin condition in babies. Now we realize that we do not drink waste water from LA, but let's turn to the 16 to One Mine. It produces by its own admission water equal to its waste rock per day in weight containing 16 parts per million nitrates. The stream it dumps into dilutes that still further. The California authorities demanded that the mine produce drinking water quality in its effluent discharge no matter what the net downstream effect. The level of 16 PPM in its waste water, while over the accepted level is known to be tolerable to adults. So although you could drink the water of this mine's run off in theory, the State would not allow it to operate. If the mine discharged 250 tons of water per day, at 16 PPM it would contaminate the country side far and wide with a staggering 8 pounds of nitrates per day. Think of it when you lie awake at nights in a cold sweat worrying about what this world is coming to. 8 whole pounds, in 50,000 gallons of water. You could probably eat 8 pounds of crap in one sitting and live to talk about it.
This makes the 16 to One Mine, actually and truly, with no fecose material applied, 206,250 times less polluting than the city in which the administrators of the law concerning mine effluents happen to live. As a matter of fact, the water board itself, in sitting at the hearing, consuming prawns for lunch and libating freely on fermented beverage, afterwards contributed by averages to -- 20 persons X 3 lbs, X.05 = 3 pounds -- no less than 3/8ths the daily of the total nitrate pollution of the mine they sat in judgement of, proving that on that score at least, they are almost as full of nitrates as the entire mine was. If you piled up the nitrate contribution in solid form their whole government department made in one day on a single acre, you would fairly need a small bulldozer to move the resulting mountain of mung aside to where one could see the Sierra Madres they are so fond of.
Reasonable policy with from which to shut down an industrial enterprise? Well, we see that if is were evenly applied across North America, we would be all living naked in caves.
But don't let that worry you. You would be free from mining pollution. The cave floor won't seem half so clammy then.
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